February, 2009

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About Ben Riga

Ben Riga is Senior Technical Evangelist for Windows Phone in Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group. In this role he runs around demonstrating the compelling technical and business value of the Windows 8 platform and how partners benefit when publishing apps to the Windows Store. Ben also supports the Microsoft field by engaging in key projects and recruiting target customers and partners.

The team organizing convergence have set up a Twitter feed. If you want to follow along you’ll find them at MBSConvergence . If you plan to attend and want to tweet while you’re there, the hashtag will be #MBSEVENTS . While I’m on the topic...

Try to say that 10 times fast. :) The theme for Convergence this year is the Power of Possibilities. I’ll be presenting in a few sessions this year and may get to show a demo or two in a keynote. I’ll be in ST05 with some great support...

We recently kicked off a worldwide tour events to help ISVs understand the potential of Dynamics CRM as a Line-of-Business Application platform. We know that differentiating your line-of-business applications from those of your competitors has never...

I was mesmerized by this simple but cool Microsoft Surface demo at last fall’s Convergence conference in Copenhagen. Lachlan Cash was kind enough to let me post the video here as a great example of how touch can transform visualization and manipulation...

I couldn’t help but think about the old Kermit the frog tune while chatting with Jennifer Pollard (Product Manager) and Neil Huizenga (Software Developer) last week about the new Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Dynamics AX . While many...